With the anniversary of Spc. Vanessa Guillen s death just two days away, the slain Fort Hood soldier s two sisters traveled Tuesday to Austin to continue fighting for laws meant to protect members of the military from sexual abuse.
Speaking from inside the Capitol, Lupe Guillen, a 17-year-old Houston native and the youngest of the three Guillen sisters, said that instead of mourning her sister Vanessa privately, she wants to continue being outspoken during this heartbreaking week to help prevent other families from feeling the same pain.
The Guillen family has alleged that the 20-year-old soldier was sexually harassed by multiple soldiers at Fort Hood before she was killed last year. Those same allegations sparked the I Am Vanessa Guillen movement online, in which hundreds of members of the military openly shared their experiences with sexual assault within their ranks.
KILLEEN â Longtime Killeen resident David Doell served two tours in Vietnam dodging enemy gunfire as a combat helicopter pilot, but the most terrifying time he ever experienced in the cockpit was during a routine maintenance test flight at Fort Hood.
âThis was sometime in the â70s,â said Doell (pronounced âdellâ), a Texas native who grew up in the Canyon Lake area between San Antonio and Austin. âOur mechanics always wanted to go up and fly. They worked on the aircraft, but they never had an opportunity to fly them.
âEvery opportunity I had, I would always take a mechanic (for a ride). We had a new guy, and he was probably 17 years old, and there was an aircraft that came out of maintenance and I had to (test) fly it. He came out there and I asked him if he wanted to go up. He said, sure, so he did the inspection and signed off on it, and then I did my test flight inspection. When I did, I found a problem with one of the controls that goes to
American-Statesman Staff
American-Statesman journalists spent 2020 chronicling the impact on the coronavirus pandemic in Central Texas, unprecedented police protests and implications of the presidential race.
Along the way, the newspaper devoted resources to exclusive reporting and investigative watchdog journalism that often led to reforms or positive changes in our community.
That reporting led to the indictment of the Williamson County sheriff, an investigation into the Texas attorney general, changes in spending plans by the Teachers Retirement System of Texas and a leadership overhaul at Fort Hood as the Statesman sought to hold officials accountable and to push for open government.
Here is a recap of some of those reports that made an impact in 2020.
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